[FRIAM] scanning an old manuscript

[Dan Roller]

I also think $100 is cheap, if the scan is good.

Last Monday Abbyy Reader’s $99 special ended.  I think they are pretty good at OCR.

If you don’t like Fedex’s OCR, but you have the scanned images, I’d stuff them into my Tesseract OCR for a second opinion.  I’ve had been trying to OCR some truly dreadful images of WPA typewritten reports on onionskin paper for the NM Library as a volunteer.

Dan

> On Dec 2, 2017, at 8:10 AM, Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:
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> $100 sounds like a good price, but I would suggest a ten page test run.
> TJ
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>> On Dec 1, 2017 8:22 PM, "Nick Thompson" <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Dear Friammers,
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>> I have a 400 page type script, double sided that I would like to scan, and then edit.  Fedex will scan it for a bit over 100 dollars.  They will put it into a word file for free, after that.  No guarantees.    Does anybody know of a better deal in Santa Fe, or if we mailed the type script off anywhere?  The quality of the OCR software is my most urgent concern.  Are there some REALLY GOOD ONES?  Would it be cheaper for me to buy the software myself? 
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>> Lemme know,
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>> Nick
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>> Nicholas S. Thompson
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>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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>> Clark University
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>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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